CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

Correctional Facilities

Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice: https://www.illinois.gov/idjj/Pages/default.aspx

Metropolitan Correctional Center: https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/ccc/index.jsp

Cook County Department of Corrections: https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/department-corrections

International Association of Correctional and Forensic Psychology: http://www.aa4cfp.org/

National Association of Forensic Counselors: http://www.forensiccounselor.org/

Initial Post (minimum of 5 meaningful sentences per prompt; cite something from the reading(s) with page number for one of the prompts):

  1. Identify and discuss two considerations for professional counselors who are working with juvenile offenders in correctional facilities.
  2. Identify and discuss two unique challenges which may be faced by professional counselors who are working with adult offenders in correctional facilities.
  3. Identify one skill which would be important for professional counselors who are working in correctional facilities.

Answer preview

  1. Identify and discuss two considerations for professional counselors who are working with juvenile offenders in correctional facilities.

The primary consideration of the professional counselors working with juvenile offenders in correctional facilities is to provide mental health services to the offenders. Counseling professional offers psychiatry services to the offenders with moderate to severe and persistent mental health disorders, regardless to which context of the disorder appears. They usually come up with intervention mechanism that results to stabilization of individuals with mental health disorders…

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